| Show san juan placer go gold id in the last issue of the mining review mention was made of the discovery of placer gold in san juan county utah by C I 1 tripp of boulder colorado since then we have received a communication from mr tripp regarding these th ese diggings 0 in which he says 1 I have received a copy of the mining review in which there is an article on the gold placers of san juan county utah and as my name is mentioned I 1 would like to verify the statement made and to further state that the handling of flour gold is no longer a mystery the problem is solved beyond a doubt and we are able to demonstrate the fact beyond question there is enough gold in the san juan colorado valley to pay off the bonds of every nation in the world and the most attractive feature connected with the proposition is that there is a known method whereby the gold can be separated and saved it does no good to know the gold is there if there is no possible means of saving it gold in sand or under ground has no purchasing value or power it has to be baptized in the light of day before it has a value the gold found in the great san juan colorado valley deposits is of a very fine texture no coarse to be found in the little plant we have in operation on the lower san juan the gold is saved by amalgamation and we are saving enough to make it a well paying industry to collect a revenue from we know what is saved but we do not know what we lose our recovery is 1 or better for every cubic yard we have found places back from the river in the mesas which showed a value of 15 to the cubic yard in gold 1 I am very much pleased with our success during the past year and I 1 expect to push development to the utmost this coming season the success of the past year is the result of fifteen years of hard research I 1 began the study of flour gold fifteen years ago as a result of making a discovery of very fine gold in very fine sand I 1 had the gold fever good and plenty my imagination told me that I 1 was the richest man in the united S tates states I 1 knew of no method by which I 1 could work the fine gold and therefore had to depend upon the experience of others on making enquiry I 1 found no one who could save the gold I 1 then began experimenting to see if I 1 could separate the fine gold from the sand I 1 shipped samples from carload lots down to small assay samples and with but one result gold but no known method of saving I 1 shipped samples to every portion of the civilized world where I 1 could get the name of a person who would undertake the task of separating the gold from the sand I 1 at last got in correspondence with the bank of england which asked for pounds of the gold bearing sand I 1 sent the required amount to john C butterfield a renowned metallurgist and in the employ of the bank at that time it was mr butterfield who introduced the cyanide process of gold recovery and who put the transvaal on its feet mr greenleaf one of the diorec directors ors of the bank made me a proposal after receiving the report from mr butterfield and stated that the sand ran 20 in gold to the cubic yard mr greenleaf stated that they would come out and put in plants capable of treating thousands of yards daily providing they could buy the ground I 1 very soon assured him they could own all the ground they could work in a lifetime arrangements were soon consummated and the engineers of the bank were soon on the ground these put in three months in sampling testing and in trying to find some tangible method of saving the gold and all without success big values were in the ground but no method of successful recovery and the engineers gave up in dismay 1 I continued ray my search for a process and am proud to say now that the problem is solved and that there is a plant in utah that is doing the work and doing it well more plants will be installed during the coming season this is an open deal no shirt sleeve or slight of hand performance about it I 1 would be pleased to answer any questions and to give all the information that I 1 am able to give regarding this matter my address is 1629 water street boulder colorado I 1 might add this I 1 have nothing to sell no patent machine or anything else this is straight |
